How Often Should I Schedule Nail Trims for My Pets?
It’s so important to keep up with regular nail trims for your pets. It’s best for their health, comfort, and for your family and home! It’s a great way to keep everyone healthy and happy and an important part of your pet care routine.
Nail trimming is an important part of your pet’s regular hygiene. You want to make sure that you’re keeping up with nail trims to ensure they’re at their healthiest. Unkempt nails can be painful and hazardous for your pets, your home, and your family. When dog’s nails get to be too long, it can cause their feet to become deformed. The deformed feet can cause injuries on important ligaments over time, and can exacerbate or cause ongoing pain and arthritis pain. Some other negative things that can come from long nails in dogs are:
Decreased traction on hard floors
Scratching the floors
Snagging on the carpet, causing pain and potentially damaging the foot or nail
The nail can curve underneath and dig into the skin of the dog’s paw pad and cause pain
Scratching of skin or clothing on human family members
Muscle pain in the dog from trying to adjust their weight distribution to avoid pain from long nails
It’s best to have your dog’s nails trimmed about every 4 weeks. You want to be sure that they stay short and allow your pets foot to have the proper curve so that they don’t experience discomfort. If your dog’s quick(a cuticle filled with nerves and blood inside the dog’s nail) gets long and needs to recede, regular nail trims will help bring that quick back to where it needs to be. Being sure to stay on top of nail trims every month will help keep the quick at an appropriate place in the nail so that your pup doesn’t cause injury to the nail and expose the quick, causing excessive pain.
Our feline friends have different nail trimming needs. It’s best to trim your cat’s nails around every 4 weeks. When cat’s nails get longer, they tend to claw and scratch at furniture, carpet, and curtains to relieve the discomfort from having nails that are too long. Trimming your cat’s nails doesn’t always seem like the easiest situation to deal with, but Michelle will help make it a breeze and your cats will thank you.
Proper nail hygiene doesn’t just look nice, it feels nice for your pets. Be sure to stay on top of your appointments with Kind Claws so that your fur babies stay at their healthiest and happiest. Michelle will make the trimming process so easy on you and your pets that everyone will look forward to their next appointment!
Reach out to us to see when we can get you on our schedule!
